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Mark David Gerson

Birthing Your Book

Synopsis

YOU Have a Book In You! Let Mark David Gerson show you how easy it can be to let that book out, with dynamic tools to get you started and keep you writing, surefire techniques to spark new concepts, new content and new ideas, and compelling inspiration to keep you motivated, committed and impassioned. You don’t even have to know what your book is about! ••• 82% of Americans say they plan to write a book someday...Will you be one of the few who does? Start Birthing Your Book today! ••• Also available on Google Play

Author Biography

Award-winning author of more than a dozen books whose readers span the globe, Mark David Gerson electrifies groups and individuals around the world with his inspiring stories and motivational workshops, seminars, talks and retreats.

Mark David's books include critically acclaimed personal development and self-help titles, compelling memoirs and spellbinding fiction. In addition, Mark David’s books for writers are considered classics in the field and his screenplay adaptations of his Q’ntana fantasy novels are on their way to theaters as a trio of epic feature films.

As a personal growth coach and creativity catalyst and mentor, Mark David works with an international roster of clients to help them foster their intuition, connect with their inner wisdom, express their innate creativity and live more passion- and purpose-filled lives.

Having overcome his own personal and creative blocks and challenges, Mark David is uniquely qualified to motivate and inspire individuals in all walks of life and from all backgrounds to unleash the power of their potential.

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Look for Mark David's books at all major online booksellers and on his website.

Author Insight

Write from the Heart. Edit from the Heart.

I saw a meme the other day that urged writers to "edit without mercy." Once upon a time, I was that kind of slash-and-burn editor – on my work as well as on others'. Then I realized that if I was beating up my manuscript, I was also beating myself up. After all, what is my work if not an extension of me? It was then that I knew I had to find a new paradigm. Now, whether working on my manuscript or yours, I view the process as an act of re-vision: of revisiting the original vision for the work and gently, compassionately and, yes, mercifully, honing and shaping it as a jeweler would a gemstone. For that's what your work is: a precious jewel that needs loving, respectful attention, not brutal, mean-spirited abuse.

Book Excerpt

Birthing Your Book

We are accustomed to experiencing the editing process as a brutal, left-brain activity too often filled with violent and abusive language: It’s about forcing the book to our will, gagging, restraining or reining in our characters, hacking away at our work or hammering our manuscript into shape. Yet when we treat our drafts with such disdain and disrespect, we are also demeaning and disrespecting ourselves as their author.

Instead of this harsh, aggressive approach, see the editing process as one of revision, of revisiting your original vision for your book and putting all your heart, art and skill into aligning what’s on paper with that vision.

As you move through draft after draft, see yourself as a jeweler, delicately etching your rough stone into the gem that reflects the vision your heart has conceived and received, then lovingly polishing it until you achieve the look and texture that you know it desires from you.

Your vision is the light force of your work, the life force of your work. It is the spirit that is its essence, the breath that keeps it alive. Your vision is your dream for your work, the expression of your intention. It is what guides it, drives it and propels it — from conception to completion and beyond. The more fully you are able to stay connected to that vision, however broadly or specifically you have drawn it, the more completely your finished book will remain true to that life force, that dream, that intention. And the truer you will be to the book that has called upon you to commit it to paper and breathe life into it.